Posted on 02/19/2016 4:48:55 AM PST by Lucky9teen
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. ~George Eliot, Felix Holt, Chapter 5
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The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. ~Clare Boothe Luce
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If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner. ~Lindsey Nelson
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I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. ~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952
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A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation. ~James Freeman Clarke, Sermon
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. ~Bill Vaughan
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It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. ~Tom Stoppard, Jumpers
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Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently and all for the same reason. ~José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, translated from Portuguese
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Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. ~W.C. Fields
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Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ~George Jean Nathan
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How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America? ~Author Unknown
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There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen. ~Author Unknown
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Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? ~Robert Orben
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Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. ~Author Unknown
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Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. ~Robert Byrne
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Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. ~Michael Novak
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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. ~Carl Sandburg
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I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it. ~Alexander Woollcott
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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
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People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing. ~Walter H. Judd
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If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven. ~Will Rogers
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Our presidential race is beginning to sound more and more like Harry Potter's duel with the Ministry of Magic. ~Dave Beard
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If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. ~Jay Leno
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The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~Henry Cate, VII
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The most important political office is that of the private citizen. ~Louis Brandeis
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ~Richard Armour
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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. ~Oscar Ameringer
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If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress? ~Author Unknown
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ~Gore Vidal
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ~Clarence Darrow
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Truth is not determined by majority vote. ~Doug Gwyn
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George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles. ~Author Unknown
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Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. ~Charles Krauthammer
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Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom. ~Plato, The Republic
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Don't vote, it only encourages them. ~Billy Connolly, An Audience with Billy Connolly, 1985
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. ~H.L. Mencken, 1956
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Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. ~Saul Bellow
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. ~Charles de Gaulle
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We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in. ~Will Rogers
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Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life. ~Elmer Davis
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is... the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Democratic National Convention, 18 August 1956
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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
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We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard
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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. ~Stewart Udall
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Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster. ~James Harvey Robinson, The Human Comedy, 1937
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When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. ~John Gardner
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During a campaign the air is full of speeches - and vice versa. ~Author Unknown
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If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. ~Meg Greenfield
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American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's-license age than at voting age. ~Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964
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If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. ~Emma Goldman
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A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large. ~Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley's Philosophy, 1900
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. ~James Russell Lowell
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Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it. ~Benjamin Lichtenberg
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. ~Karl Marx
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Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln. ~Will Rogers
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? ~Will Rogers
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This election year is very historic
The country is feeling dysphoric
So many dumbed down voters
And socialist promoters
Lets hope the electorate isn’t hysteric
One day a young man asked him "Sir, you have been preaching the same message for decades and the city is still full of evil. Why do you continue to preach?"
The old preacher explained, "The first decade I preached in the hopes of changing the city. The second decade I preached in the hopes of changing some people in the city. Now I preach to keep them from changing me."
That reminds me of a political cartoon from 1980. Jimmy Carter with his big grin in each panel.....he’s saying,
“Hi, I’m Jimmy Carter and I need your help. A very special kind of help. You see, for the past four years, I’ve had this coat hanger stuck in my mouth.”
politicians to me are boring
they really get me snoring
but judges you see
appointed to be
makes it much more abhoring
Another view
A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church, by hand.
He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript.
So, the new monk goes to the Old Abbot to question this, pointing out that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, it would never be picked up!
In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent copies.
he head monk, says, “We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son.”
He goes down into the dark caves
underneath the monastery where the original manuscripts are held as archives,
in a locked vault that hasn’t been opened for hundreds of years. Hours go by and nobody sees the Old Abbot.
So, the young monk gets worried and goes down to look for him. He sees him banging his head against the wall and wailing.
“We missed the R! We missed the R!
We missed the bloody R!”
His forehead is all bloody and bruised and he is crying uncontrollably.
The young monk asks the old Abbot, “What’s wrong, father?”
With a choking voice, the old Abbot replies,
“The word was ....
CELEBRATE!”
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Those politicians always do pander
It’s rare for one to have candor
Their past is essential
For their full potential
To qualify for high commander
Are you by any chance a blonde? :)
[Are you by any chance a blonde? :)]
Lol, No but if it would get me a date with her, I’d dye my hair blond.
Please take me off of your ping list. Thank you.
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